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Editorial Hayes_Eleanor1
| Issue 10

Welcome to the tenth issue of Science in School

“Intelligence is of secondary importance in research.” So says our featured scientist, cosmologist Tamara Davis. For her, interest and inspiration are far more important for success in science. Tamara herself certainly lacks neither interest nor inspiration (nor, I suspect, intelligence). She…

Ages: not applicable;
Topics: Uncategorized

Inspire
| Issue 9

An Inconvenient Truth, By Al Gore

Horror movies are a popular, albeit rather despised, film genre. It is all the more surprising that the most horrific of the current crop of scary movies has recently won an Oscar, not to mention the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to its main protagonist.

Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
Topics: Resources
     

Teach issue9diabetes
| Issue 9

Detecting sugar: an everyday problem when facing diabetes

Fred Engelbrecht and Thomas Wendt from the ExploHeidelberg Teaching Lab describe some experiments on sugar detection to demonstrate the problems that people with diabetes face every day.

Ages: 16-19;
Topics: Biology, Chemistry, Health
                 

Understand issue8bernardopatti
| Issue 8

Laboratory in space: interview with Bernardo Patti

Bernardo Patti is the Columbus mission manager at the European Space Agency. He is an engineer and worked at nuclear power plants before going into space technology. Shortly before Columbus was launched, he talked to Anna-Lynn Wegener.

Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
Topics: Physics, Biology, Astronomy / space
             

Inspire
| Issue 8

Paul goes back to the classroom

As any teacher knows, the job isn’t exactly easy. So what makes a professional, experienced bioinformatician want to give up an established career to brave the front of a classroom? Vienna Leigh from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory investigates.

Ages: not applicable;
Topics: Profiles
             

Inspire issue8prudencemutowo
| Issue 8

Salt of the Earth

Prudence Mutowo can really identify with the organism she studies. After all, they have a lot in common. She told Vienna Leigh about researching a recently discovered archaeal species, Haloferax volcanii, which thrives in extreme conditions – and coming from Zimbabwe to the UK to pursue her…

Ages: 16-19;
Topics: Profiles
         

Understand
| Issue 64

Galactic Archaeology: how we study our home galaxy

We can’t image our home galaxy from the outside, so how do we study it? Learn how astronomers unveil the dramatic past of the Milky Way and peer into its future.

Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
Topics: Astronomy / space, Engineering, News from the EIROs, Physics